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Prosecution Cannot Fill Gaps In Circumstantial Evidence Merely Because Delivery Occurred Inside Private Bathroom: Kerala High Court Acquits Mother In Infanticide Case Mere Presence And Possession Of Stick Cannot Establish Common Intention To Commit Murder Without Proof Of Functional Relationship: Allahabad High Court Gravity Of Offence Cannot Be Perpetual Bar To Remission: Delhi High Court Consensual Relationship Spanning Years Cannot Be Turned Into Rape Charge Merely Because Stock Market Investments Soured: Karnataka High Court Grants Bail
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August 16, 2026
Consensual Relationship Spanning Years Cannot Be Turned Into Rape Charge Merely Because Stock Market Investments
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"Allegation springs when the stock market falls. The allegation is that the desired amount is not handed over by the petitioner to the complainant. On

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August 16, 2026
Gravity Of Offence Cannot Be Perpetual Bar To Remission: Delhi High Court
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  • HIGH COURTS

"The gravity of the original offence and the length of the sentence imposed by the court are, by themselves, not relevant considerations while deciding a

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August 16, 2026
Mere Presence And Possession Of Stick Cannot Establish Common Intention To Commit Murder Without Proof
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  • HIGH COURTS

"An accused may commit or participate in an act constituting one offence, but that fact alone cannot make him constructively liable for another offence unless the act

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August 16, 2026
Prosecution Cannot Fill Gaps In Circumstantial Evidence Merely Because Delivery Occurred Inside Private Bathroom: Kerala
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"In the absence of evidence establishing these crucial links, the prosecution's version remains an inference built upon suspicion rather than a conclusion founded on proven

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August 15, 2026
High Court Refuses To Interfere With CISF Constable's Dismissal For Sleeping On Duty And Misbehaving
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  • HIGH COURTS

Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a significant ruling, dismissed a writ petition challenging a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable's dismissal, holding that courts

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August 15, 2026
Order 39 Rule 2A CPC Aims To Secure Compliance, Attachment And Imprisonment Are Not Ends
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"The objective of Order 39 Rule 2A of the CPC is to ensure compliance with the interim order — quite akin to the principles applicable under

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August 15, 2026
Child Witnessing Mother's Murder By Father Is A Reliable Witness, Testimony Cannot Be Mechanically Discarded:
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"Witnessing the death of one's mother at the hands of one's father, uncles and aunts is indeed an abnormal event in the life of an individual.

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August 15, 2026
Municipal Corporations Cannot Be Burdened With ESI Dues And Penal Damages Prior To Statutory Notification
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"Unless an establishment is brought within the purview of the ESI Act, in the manner prescribed under the Act, none of the provisions of the Act would

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August 15, 2026
Subsequent Property Auction Renders Decree For Return Of Factory Infructuous, Sets Aside Trial Court Direction:
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"In view of the subsequent events, the property directed to be returned is no longer available with the defendants, since it has already been sold

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August 15, 2026
Non-Disclosure of Settlement & Subsequent Sales as 'Just Cause' Under S. 263 Indian Succession Act:
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"The expression 'just cause' has consistently received a liberal interpretation. Since probate is a judgment in rem, the Court granting probate owes a corresponding duty

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August 15, 2026
138 NI Act | Demand Notice Clubbing Stale Or Premature Cheques With Valid Ones Is
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"A failure in above regard, namely when the cheque amount is not mentioned in the Proviso (b) notice or the amount different than the actual

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August 15, 2026
Mortgagee In Possession Can Be Recognized As Statutory Tenant By Religious Institution: Madras High Court
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  • HIGH COURTS

"The relationship between the parties has been modified from that of mortgagee under possession to that of a statutory tenant, the said fact may be

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August 15, 2026
Pending Crime Branch Probe No Bar To Bail When Initial Medical Evidence Points To Suicide:
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  • HIGH COURTS

"Bail should not be confused with acquittal of the accused, rather it is a temporary release from the custody to face the trial. It is also

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August 15, 2026
Parking Space Lease Deeds Attract Stamp Duty Under Indian Stamp Act; Collector Under Section 31
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  • HIGH COURTS

"The definition of 'Lease' for the purpose of Stamp Act is extensive in nature... by fiction, 'any instrument by which tolls of any description are

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August 15, 2026
Existing Petrol Pump Owners Have No Locus Standi To Challenge NOC Granted To Rival Outlets
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  • HIGH COURTS

"No fundamental or statutory right to stop another operator coming in business near his petrol pump. We are not inclined to exercise our discretionary jurisdiction

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August 15, 2026
Adverse Inference Can't Be Drawn Against Bank For Non-Production Of Unproven Documents To Discharge Guarantors:
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  • HIGH COURTS

"Unless there is an order passed by the Court to produce the revival documents by the plaintiff bank, no adverse inference could have been drawn against

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August 15, 2026
Husband Cannot Enjoy Benefit of Consent Divorce and Then Claim Inability to Transfer Property Settled
  • legal News
  • HIGH COURTS

"Law does not permit a person to both approbate and reprobate." Delhi High Court, in a significant ruling dated August 11, 2026, held that a

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August 14, 2026
Minority Status Cannot Arrest Limitation Period For Appeal If Minor Was Represented By Natural Guardian
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  • HIGH COURTS

"Merely because the respondents do not oppose the application for condonation of delay, this Court is not bound to condone the delay. Section 3 of the Limitation

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August 14, 2026
Mere Criminal Antecedents Cannot Justify Invoking 'Organized Crime' Offence Under Section 111 BNS Without Fulfilling
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  • HIGH COURTS

"Mere criminal antecedents, by themselves, cannot automatically justify the invocation of Section 111 of the BNS unless the ingredients of the offence contemplated therein are

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August 14, 2026
Mere Admission Of Property Boundaries In Family Partition Deeds Destroys Coparceners' Claim That Land Remains
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  • HIGH COURTS

"When such being the case, when the document for a decades stands in the name of husband of defendant No.1 and the same was sold to defendant

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August 14, 2026
'Interest And Welfare Of Child Would Be Best Served': Supreme Court Invokes Parens Patriae In
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"Suffice it to observe that having interacted with the child we are of the opinion that the interest and welfare of the child would be

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August 14, 2026
Trademark Infringement: Defendant Can Cross-Examine Plaintiff On Use Of Brand Name Even If Written Statement
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"When the plaintiff affirms trademark infringement, even if the written statement is not on record, the defendant is entitled to put the question which queries

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August 14, 2026
Supreme Court Slams High Court For Erroneously Exercising Review Jurisdiction On 'Mistaken Notion', Restores Employee's
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Upon perusal of the impugned order, we are satisfied that the Division Bench committed serious error in exercising its review jurisdiction." Supreme Court, in a significant ruling,

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August 14, 2026
Re-employed Judicial Officers Cannot Claim 6th Pay Commission Scales: Supreme Court
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Re-employed officers/persons after the retirement, when re-employed again, stand belong to a separate class. Their claim to avail the 6th Pay Commission pay scales has

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August 14, 2026
Borrowers Cannot Ignore Bank Accounting Systems And Suspense Accounts To Claim Arbitrary Reductions In Loan
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Trust and its trustees cannot blithely ignore the accounting system followed by banks and come up with different calculations at different points of time to suit

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August 14, 2026
Subsequent Declaration Of Juvenility Does Not Vitiate Conviction On Merits: Supreme Court
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The subsequent declaration of juvenility does not, by itself, erase a finding of guilt recorded on evidence. It principally affects the forum and nature of

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August 13, 2026
Suit For Money Recovery Cannot Be Maintained Solely On Invoices Without Proof Of Running Account:
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Suit as we found was filed on the strength of the invoices raised and not on the basis of a running account. The mere deduction

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August 13, 2026
Initiating Winding-Up Petition Does Not Toll Limitation For Independent Money Recovery Suits: Supreme Court
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The filing of a suit for recovery based upon a cause of action, that is within limitation can in any manner impact the separate and

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August 13, 2026
Tort | Writ Petitions Seeking Compensation For Electrocution Are Not Maintainable When Disputed Questions Of
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"High Court failed to appreciate that all these cases were actions in tort and negligence was required to be established firstly by the claimants." Supreme

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August 13, 2026
Supreme Court Slams Chhattisgarh Top Officials For "Sacrilegious" Cover-Up Of Custodial Death And Orders CBI
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The stance of blissful ignorance taken by the senior officers of the State of Chhattisgarh... is sacrilegious and reflects a disturbing disregard of the statutory

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August 13, 2026
Issuing Summons Under Section 70 CGST Act Does Not Make A Person An Accused, But
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
  • REPORTABLE

"Order under Section 69 of the CGST Act, as held, being a sine qua non to seek anticipatory bail, it would be an anomaly to

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August 13, 2026
Dependent Who Was Eligible On Date Of Death Cannot Be Denied Compassionate Appointment Due To
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The respondent-authorities cannot be permitted to defeat the claim of an otherwise eligible dependent by taking advantage of their own delay in processing the application."

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August 13, 2026
Accessories Compatible With Multiple Machines Across Different Tariff Headings Cannot Claim Benefit Of Rule 2(b)
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"When it speaks of accessories suitable for use ‘solely or principally’ with a particular kind of machine or a number of machines of the same tariff

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August 13, 2026
Order 39 CPC | Appellate Courts Cannot Substitute Views Or Conduct Mini-Trials In Temporary Injunction
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Scope of examination on an application under Order 39 — and, equally, of an appeal against an order made on such an application — is

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August 13, 2026
Criminal Process Cannot Be Used To Compel Payment In Commercial Disputes Arising From Written Contracts:
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"To permit the proceeding to continue would be to permit a dispute arising from a written commercial contract, to be pursued through the machinery of

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August 13, 2026
Composite Appeal Against Common Judgment In Consolidated Suits Maintainable If Requisite Decrees And Court Fees
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The deficiency in the composite appeal preferred by the plaintiff under Section 96 of the Code was more in its ‘form’ than ‘substance’. Hence, an

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August 12, 2026
'Motive Or Purpose Irrelevant': Supreme Court Reinstates SEBI Penalties, Holds Avoiding Loss Is No Defence
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The reasons for which he trades or the purposes to which he applies the proceeds of the transactions are not intended to be relevant for determining whether

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August 12, 2026
Supreme Court Holds Uncrystallized Damages Cannot Be Claimed As Operational Debt Under IBC
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"It is a settled position of law that damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, cannot be treated as operational debt unless and until they are assessed

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August 12, 2026
Mere Subsistence Of EPC Contract Does Not Create Continuing Cause Of Action: Supreme Court Holds
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"The period of limitation starts running from the date of the default of non-payment and the right to apply under the IBC accrues from such

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August 12, 2026
Employer Cannot Terminate Services For Suppression Of Criminal Antecedents Without Establishing Candidate's Prior Knowledge And
  • SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

"Knowledge of a fact is a necessary pre-requisite for its non-disclosure. The very concept of suppression presupposes an awareness of that which is suppressed; one

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August 16, 2026
Consensual Relationship Spanning Years Cannot Be Turned Into Rape Charge Merely Because Stock Market Investments
  • HIGH COURTS

"Allegation springs when the stock market falls. The allegation is that the desired amount is not handed over by the petitioner to the complainant. On

read more
August 16, 2026
Gravity Of Offence Cannot Be Perpetual Bar To Remission: Delhi High Court
  • HIGH COURTS

"The gravity of the original offence and the length of the sentence imposed by the court are, by themselves, not relevant considerations while deciding a

read more
August 16, 2026
Mere Presence And Possession Of Stick Cannot Establish Common Intention To Commit Murder Without Proof
  • HIGH COURTS

"An accused may commit or participate in an act constituting one offence, but that fact alone cannot make him constructively liable for another offence unless the act

read more
August 16, 2026
Prosecution Cannot Fill Gaps In Circumstantial Evidence Merely Because Delivery Occurred Inside Private Bathroom: Kerala
  • HIGH COURTS

"In the absence of evidence establishing these crucial links, the prosecution's version remains an inference built upon suspicion rather than a conclusion founded on proven

read more
August 15, 2026
High Court Refuses To Interfere With CISF Constable's Dismissal For Sleeping On Duty And Misbehaving
  • HIGH COURTS

Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a significant ruling, dismissed a writ petition challenging a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable's dismissal, holding that courts

read more
August 15, 2026
Order 39 Rule 2A CPC Aims To Secure Compliance, Attachment And Imprisonment Are Not Ends
  • HIGH COURTS

"The objective of Order 39 Rule 2A of the CPC is to ensure compliance with the interim order — quite akin to the principles applicable under

read more
August 15, 2026
Child Witnessing Mother's Murder By Father Is A Reliable Witness, Testimony Cannot Be Mechanically Discarded:
  • HIGH COURTS

"Witnessing the death of one's mother at the hands of one's father, uncles and aunts is indeed an abnormal event in the life of an individual.

read more
August 15, 2026
Municipal Corporations Cannot Be Burdened With ESI Dues And Penal Damages Prior To Statutory Notification
  • HIGH COURTS

"Unless an establishment is brought within the purview of the ESI Act, in the manner prescribed under the Act, none of the provisions of the Act would

read more
August 15, 2026
Subsequent Property Auction Renders Decree For Return Of Factory Infructuous, Sets Aside Trial Court Direction:
  • HIGH COURTS

"In view of the subsequent events, the property directed to be returned is no longer available with the defendants, since it has already been sold

read more
August 15, 2026
Non-Disclosure of Settlement & Subsequent Sales as 'Just Cause' Under S. 263 Indian Succession Act:
  • HIGH COURTS

"The expression 'just cause' has consistently received a liberal interpretation. Since probate is a judgment in rem, the Court granting probate owes a corresponding duty

read more
August 15, 2026
138 NI Act | Demand Notice Clubbing Stale Or Premature Cheques With Valid Ones Is
  • HIGH COURTS

"A failure in above regard, namely when the cheque amount is not mentioned in the Proviso (b) notice or the amount different than the actual

read more
August 15, 2026
Mortgagee In Possession Can Be Recognized As Statutory Tenant By Religious Institution: Madras High Court
  • HIGH COURTS

"The relationship between the parties has been modified from that of mortgagee under possession to that of a statutory tenant, the said fact may be

read more
August 15, 2026
Pending Crime Branch Probe No Bar To Bail When Initial Medical Evidence Points To Suicide:
  • HIGH COURTS

"Bail should not be confused with acquittal of the accused, rather it is a temporary release from the custody to face the trial. It is also

read more
August 15, 2026
Parking Space Lease Deeds Attract Stamp Duty Under Indian Stamp Act; Collector Under Section 31
  • HIGH COURTS

"The definition of 'Lease' for the purpose of Stamp Act is extensive in nature... by fiction, 'any instrument by which tolls of any description are

read more
August 15, 2026
Existing Petrol Pump Owners Have No Locus Standi To Challenge NOC Granted To Rival Outlets
  • HIGH COURTS

"No fundamental or statutory right to stop another operator coming in business near his petrol pump. We are not inclined to exercise our discretionary jurisdiction

read more
August 15, 2026
Adverse Inference Can't Be Drawn Against Bank For Non-Production Of Unproven Documents To Discharge Guarantors:
  • HIGH COURTS

"Unless there is an order passed by the Court to produce the revival documents by the plaintiff bank, no adverse inference could have been drawn against

read more
August 15, 2026
Husband Cannot Enjoy Benefit of Consent Divorce and Then Claim Inability to Transfer Property Settled
  • HIGH COURTS

"Law does not permit a person to both approbate and reprobate." Delhi High Court, in a significant ruling dated August 11, 2026, held that a

read more
August 14, 2026
Minority Status Cannot Arrest Limitation Period For Appeal If Minor Was Represented By Natural Guardian
  • HIGH COURTS

"Merely because the respondents do not oppose the application for condonation of delay, this Court is not bound to condone the delay. Section 3 of the Limitation

read more
August 14, 2026
Mere Criminal Antecedents Cannot Justify Invoking 'Organized Crime' Offence Under Section 111 BNS Without Fulfilling
  • HIGH COURTS

"Mere criminal antecedents, by themselves, cannot automatically justify the invocation of Section 111 of the BNS unless the ingredients of the offence contemplated therein are

read more
August 14, 2026
Mere Admission Of Property Boundaries In Family Partition Deeds Destroys Coparceners' Claim That Land Remains
  • HIGH COURTS

"When such being the case, when the document for a decades stands in the name of husband of defendant No.1 and the same was sold to defendant

read more

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"Copyright law, a delicate balance of protecting creativity while fostering innovation." – Indian Judiciary-  Introduction: Safeguarding Creativity Through the Copyright Act

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In the Indian legal system, judgments play a crucial role in shaping jurisprudence and guiding future cases. These judgments can be classified into two primary categories: reportable and non-reportable.

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